How to stop the bleeding

[proudpapa]

I'm on the worst losing streak of my short poker life. Down $75 over about 1,500 hands -- I know that's not a lot of hands or a lot of money to some people, but for my roll it is. I'm playing what I thought was TAG poker, with my numbers reading 20/14/1.5 over that stretch (I have freaking mac poker tracker, so sorry, no graph).

What immediate steps should I take to turn this around? I'm tilting hard right now, so I'm going to take a few days off before I play again. When i start playing again, though, I'm not sure if I should loosen up. Playing TAG at NL10 is killing me. I wait and wait for a decent hand, raise and get folds because everyone knows I'm only playing solid starting hands. If I get a call and miss the flop, I'll 85% of the time c-bet, get a call or a raise and be forced to fold later. It just whittles away my buy-ins.

IF I do hit, I'll have hands like these where clearly I'm underbetting, but I'm freaked out about scaring villain away and not extracting the most I can:

Full Tilt Poker, $0.05/$0.10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 5 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter

Hero (CO): $10.15
BTN: $5.10
SB: $12.75
BB: $12.30
UTG: $6.80

Pre-Flop: A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (CO)
UTG folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $0.40</font>, BTN folds, SB calls $0.35, BB calls $0.30

Flop: ($1.20) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (3 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">BB bets $1.20</font>, Hero calls $1.20

Turn: ($3.60) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">BB bets $3.60</font>, Hero calls $3.60

River: ($10.80) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">BB bets $7.10 and is All-In</font>, Hero folds

Full Tilt Poker, $0.05/$0.10 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LegoPoker Hand History Converter

Hero (MP): $11.20
CO: $14.80
BTN: $5.25
SB: $9.45
BB: $4.65
UTG: $5.70

Pre-Flop: 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] dealt to Hero (MP)
UTG calls $0.10, <font color="red">Hero raises to $0.50</font>, 2 folds, SB calls $0.45, 2 folds

Flop: ($1.20) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">SB bets $0.30</font>, <font color="red">Hero raises to $0.90</font>, SB calls $0.60

Turn: ($3) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $1</font>, SB calls $1

River: ($5) 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] (2 Players)
<font color="red">SB bets $2.20</font>, Hero calls $2.20